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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 06:34:12 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [Q] Looking for an emulation for CMOV* instructions.
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Hi!

> The kernel isnt there to fix up the fact authors can't read. Its also very
> hard to get emulations right. I grant that this wasn't helped by the fact

What's so hard about CMOV?

> If you have a static linked program install the right version. RPMv4
> even knows about cmov and i686 rpms.

RPM does not help. Think new machine failed, but you still have some trash
with 386 on it, so you connect your disk to it, boot from floppy, and expect
it to work.
									Pavel
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